Learn high-level tactics for exceeding system design, cost, and patient-centered goals in courses that combine research with real-world insights from healthcare administrators and facilities experts. Courses are developed by faculty members from Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology as well as its Sloan Program in Health Administration.
Healthcare Certificates
Learn high-level tactics for exceeding system design, cost, and patient-centered goals in courses that combine research with real-world insights from healthcare administrators and facilities experts. Courses are developed by faculty members from Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology as well as its Sloan Program in Health Administration.
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Healthcare Change Leadership
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| Determine Your Own Course Schedule | $2,400 |
| Learn and Pay as You Go |
Healthcare delivery continues to be in a state of constant change and as a result, today’s healthcare leaders must transform the way their organizations respond to and lead change initiatives. Leaders must not only be able to lead their organizations through change, they must be able to successfully interact with multiple affiliated entities. Professionals need to successfully manage and lead people through change initiatives to transform their entities to meet the demands of tomorrow’s delivery systems. Leaders must be able to master the quantitative and qualitative approach to innovation in the healthcare setting, focusing on the levers of strategy, measurement, leadership, and culture.
In this certificate, professionals will reset their thinking around how best to understand, measure, implement, and lead successful change initiatives. Leaders must also understand the impact that culture has on organizational success. As a result of this certificate students will learn strategies that can impact their confidence, self-efficacy and as a result, their job satisfaction.
In this certificate, professionals will reset their thinking around how best to understand, measure, implement, and lead successful change initiatives. Leaders must also understand the impact that culture has on organizational success. As a result of this certificate students will learn strategies that can impact their confidence, self-efficacy and as a result, their job satisfaction.
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- Assess and diagnose your existing organizational culture, vision, and shared values
- Measure, track, and communicate the results of your change initiatives
- Map out the strengths and weaknesses of your industry in order to create a profitable and attractive strategic plan
- Devise a strategic plan for your organization based on the existing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing your organization
- Identify areas for improvement and potential growth
- Identify the precursors to change in the healthcare industry
- Know when and how to communicate changes to your employees in order to get maximum buy-in
- Develop a change management plan to successfully carry out a change initiative
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3600
Strategic Healthcare Leadership
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| Determine Your Own Course Schedule | $3,600 |
| Learn and Pay as You Go |
A smartly designed, well-executed strategic plan is indispensable not only to an organization’s long-term success, but to its very survival. Today’s healthcare leaders need to lead their organizations and be able to strategically drive initiatives that interact with multiple affiliated entities. Whether you are a senior leader looking to refine your strategic skills or an early to mid-level healthcare professional aspiring to a strategic position, leading strategic initiatives will be key your growth and success as a leader.
The Strategic Healthcare Leadership Certificate provides you with the critical skills you need to lead strategic initiatives in your organization to success through a series of six courses. Ultimately, leaders will increase their effectiveness in leading healthcare organizations through improved knowledge, skills, and practice implementing strategic plans.
The Strategic Healthcare Leadership Certificate provides you with the critical skills you need to lead strategic initiatives in your organization to success through a series of six courses. Ultimately, leaders will increase their effectiveness in leading healthcare organizations through improved knowledge, skills, and practice implementing strategic plans.
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- Recognize and compensate for psychological factors in yourself and in others that affect decision quality
- Establish responsibilities and accountabilities to ensure effective follow-through on decisions made
- Find ways to develop an effective agenda for change
- Identify strategies for dealing with inertia and resistance
- Evaluate initiatives for their applicability in reaching targets
- Create a strategic vision for your organization
- Identify areas for improvement and potential growth
- Develop a strategic plan that includes a set of strategic goals and an action plan for each goal
- Monitor progress and refine the strategic plan based on results
Healthcare isn’t limited to patient care. Today’s most successful healthcare professionals are also well versed in essential business and management concepts. Whether you’re running your own practice or managing others in a clinic, department or nursing floor, you must be able to effectively lead the people around you, understand the financial landscape, create budgets and navigate the regulatory environment.
This certificate program is aimed at giving doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals the basic knowledge and skills needed to manage people and programs efficiently and within the bounds of government regulations.
This certificate program is aimed at giving doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals the basic knowledge and skills needed to manage people and programs efficiently and within the bounds of government regulations.
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- Manage cross-disciplinary teams effectively in order to hit organizational goals
- Analyze financial statements to assess the financial stability and progress of an organization
- Apply standard financial ratios to financial data to make strategic decisions
- Use a systematic analysis to assess the impact of proposed purchases or services
- Apply the principles of service marketing to healthcare organizations
- Add value to patient and payer relationships through the application of marketing principles
- Determine economic strategies suited to the dynamics of healthcare
- Apply best practices in cost accounting to improve profitability of a healthcare unit or organization
- Select a budgeting approach and develop budget estimates
- Consider quality expectations and standards relevant to healthcare facilities
- Implement inpatient and outpatient performance measures defined by reimbursement providers and regulators
- Prepare to implement guidelines and practices that meet healthcare and labor regulations
- Managing People in a Healthcare Setting
- Assessing Your Organization's Finances
- Planning Healthcare Investments and Marketing
- Addressing Healthcare Economics
- Guiding Your Organization’s Costs and Budgets
- Improving Quality and Performance of Healthcare Services
- Navigating the Healthcare Regulatory Environment
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3600
Healthcare Facilities Planning and Design
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| Determine Your Own Course Schedule | $3,600 |
| Learn and Pay as You Go |
Healthcare facility design is more than picking the right wall colors or materials. If done well, healthcare facility design and planning can transform your organization and improve safety, operations, and the bottom line. Above all, an optimal, patient-centered healthcare environment has the power to improve clinical outcomes.
This six-course certificate program provides you with in-depth instruction in effectively using evidence-based research to improve a healthcare environment. Core courses cover the critical components of healthcare facilities design planning. Learn excellence in change leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic alignment with organizational goals. Create your strategic plan and execute and assess it by using data to gauge impact. Learn some of the critical skills you need to lead your project to success or dive deeper to interpret technical facility design plans.
This six-course certificate program provides you with in-depth instruction in effectively using evidence-based research to improve a healthcare environment. Core courses cover the critical components of healthcare facilities design planning. Learn excellence in change leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic alignment with organizational goals. Create your strategic plan and execute and assess it by using data to gauge impact. Learn some of the critical skills you need to lead your project to success or dive deeper to interpret technical facility design plans.
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- Identify areas in need of improvement in the U.S. healthcare system
- Develop a strategic vision for your organization
- Monitor progress and refine your strategic plan based on results
- Anticipate and collect data to inform your strategic planning process
- Effectively participate in the planning and design of healthcare facilities
- Recommend ways to use available resources for renovation and design
- Develop early conceptual-level cost and space estimates
- Provide feedback regarding building and renovation projects
- Conduct your own quick and inexpensive on-site research study
- Interpret published research findings
- Know how to be successful as a project manager
- Build your problem-solving skills to help projects succeed
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4800
Executive Healthcare Leadership
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| Determine Your Own Course Schedule | $4,800 |
| Learn and Pay as You Go |
In the innovative and dynamic industry that is healthcare, executive leaders of the field must equip themselves with the ability to guide their organizations and teams through times of change. They must be able to lead their organizations through the physical change in addition to successfully interacting with multiple affiliated entities. An executive leader’s credibility, authority, and ability to keep a team focused and motivated are under constant scrutiny. And rightfully so—it’s the leader’s job to communicate strategy, negotiate skillfully, influence team behaviors, and deliver results. Simultaneously, leaders in healthcare must be able to master the quantitative and qualitative approach to innovation in the healthcare setting, focusing on the levers of strategy, measurement, leadership, and culture.
The Executive Healthcare Leadership Certificate provides you with critical skills to lead your organization to success through a series of six core courses and two electives that give you the flexibility to customize the program to your goals. As a result of completing this certificate, you’ll have practiced concrete strategies to increase your effectiveness in leading your organization.
The Executive Healthcare Leadership Certificate provides you with critical skills to lead your organization to success through a series of six core courses and two electives that give you the flexibility to customize the program to your goals. As a result of completing this certificate, you’ll have practiced concrete strategies to increase your effectiveness in leading your organization.
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- Evaluate initiatives for their applicability in reaching targets
- Involve stakeholders in defining, refining, implementing, and evaluating the strategic plan
- Recognize and compensate for psychological factors in yourself and in others that affect decision quality
- Create a strategic vision for your organization and identify areas for improvement and potential growth
- Devise employee-related practices that improve your organization and thereby enhance service outcomes to customers
- Implement healthy team behaviors and functions
- Diagnose team skill sets and develop a plan to build synergy and collaboration
- Respond decisively and consistently when faced with situations that require a decision
- Detect and address impediments to your credibility with subordinates, superiors, and others with whom you interact professionally
- Evaluate factors that undermine employee motivation and engagement in your organization
- Explore critical decisions such as when to negotiate, when not to negotiate, whether you should make the opening move in a negotiation, and how many issues you want to put on the table